UB40

UB40 is a group of music British Dub/Reggae founded in 1978 with Birmingham (England). UB40 is one of the groups of reggae having received the most influences, in particular Yemeni, African and jamaïcaine. The name of the group, UB40 is a form of request of the rights to unemployment (UB = U nemployment B enefits).

UB40 was influenced by the evenings Blues that the members attended during their adolescence, but also by the Ska and the Reggae which inspired the songs King , Madam Medusa , Food for Thought , Signing Off and One in Ten .

Ali and Robin Campbell are the wire of the singer folk Scottish Ian Campbell.

Their beginnings, their musical style is single with large influences of Synthétiseur S, Guitare Rock, Saxophone and Dub which will be improved thereafter by Pablo Falconer, their producer.

Artists with whom UB40 collaborated: Robert Micrometer caliper, Pato Banton, Bitty McLean, Chrissie Hynde, Nuttea and Afrika Bambaataa.

UB40 is also one of the very first groups Western to have carried out a round in Soviet Union in 1987.

Moreover, they always refused to occur in South Africa during Apartheid.

List members

  • James Brown (battery)
  • Ali Campbell (guitar, principal song)
  • Robin Campbell (principal guitar, song)
  • Earl Falconer (low guitar, song)
  • Norman Hassan (percussions, trombone)
  • Brian Through (saxophones)
  • Mickey Virtue (keyboards)
  • Terence Wilson says Astro (percussions, trumpet, song)
  • Pablo Falconer (producing deceased in 1988)

The group bought its first instruments with the money of compensation that Ali Campbell received after a brawl in a bar. They repeated during 6 months in a cellar before occurring in public in a pub of Birmingham on February 9th, 1979. They started by making the first part of Pretenders, lasting their round in England. Their first LP " Signing Off" is an own-produced disc, a first in the history of brittanic industry discographic.

They left amongst other things the very famous Red Red Wine and Kingston Town .

The majority of their songs are inspired thereafter by the Ska of the years 1960.

They sold to date, a little more than 50 million discs.

UB40 often denounced racism, unemployment, the Thatcher years and the foreign politics of domination.

Discography

  • Signing Off (1980), the U.K.
  • Present Arms (1981), the U.K.
  • Present Arms in Dub (1981), the U.K.
  • UB44 (1982), the U.K.
  • UB40 Live (1983), the U.K.
  • Labor off Coils (1983), the U.K.
  • Geffery Morgan (1984), the U.K.
  • Baggariddim (1985), the U.K.
  • Rat in the Kitchen (1986), the U.K.
  • UB40 CCCP: Live in Moscow (1987); Live in Moscow, Russia 1986
  • The Best off UB40 - Volume One (1987), the U.K.
  • UB40 (album)|UB40 (1988), the U.K.
  • Labor off Coils II (1989), the U.K.
  • Promises and Lies (1993), the U.K.
  • The Best off UB40 - Volume Two (1995), the U.K.
  • Guns in the Ghetto (1997), the U.K.
  • UB40 Present the Dancehall Album (1998)
  • Labor off Coils III (1998), the U.K.
  • The Very Best off UB40 (2000), the U.K.
  • Cover Up (2001), the U.K.
  • Homegrown (2003),The U.K.
  • Who You Fighting For? (2005), the U.K.
  • Live At Montreux 2002 (2007), the U.K.

Film music

External bonds

  • Official site

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